Reflection

In this reflection, I will demonstrate why I have achieved each Course Learning Outcome with a abundant understanding of the rhetorical concepts. As well share my thoughts on the goals that I believe I have not achieved and what I feel isn’t my greatest strength.

• Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.

In reading  Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Citizen by Claudia Rankine, Signs Preceding The End Of The World by Yuri Herrera, and Excess – The Factory by Leslie Kaplan, I was able to analyze their separate intentions and to understand broader perspectives about the real world. Citizen by Claudia Rankine criticizes society for its racism and how it affects every aspect of living for black people which privileged white people don’t endure simply because of their skin color. While Signs Preceding the End of the World also deals with a marginalized group of people of color it also shines light on the harsh reality of migrating and the hardships immigrants face while on their journey and also arrival in the United States. Citizen was a cry for empathy, a cry to humanity to understand the pain of being black in a dominated white society. Signs Preceding the End of the World was an eye opener to how one can change simply from emerging into different places with different expectations, and how differently you’re treated. In Excess – The Factory it critics a capitalist society but not in regards to its racism or discrimination but more on its ideals and ways of life for its citizens. The workers in the factory are brutalized, stripped of any self identity except for bringing profit in and are taken away from ever living any sort of life for themselves.

• Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.

To demonstrate Learning Outcome #2, which is that I have developed “reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing,” I will include screenshots of my labor log which consists of revisions and editing I’ve done for past assignments. As well as drafts I’ve written and corrected after revisions.

• Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.

To demonstrate Learning Outcome #3 which shows that I have included rhetorical terms and strategies in my writing I will provide a screenshot of my Comparative Analysis Paper where I analyzed how each text appeals to self and other yet introducing different universal problems.

• Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.

To demonstrate that I collaborated and engaged in the social aspects of the writing process, I will include a screenshot of feedback that I received on my Comparative analysis essay draft. I will then share a screenshot of feedback that I gave to a classmate on their Comparative analysis essay draft.

• Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.

To demonstrate Learning Outcome #5, which is to understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audience, I will use the creation of this website through CUNY Academic Commons as evidence that I was capable to show my work through a digital portfolio. This digital portfolio will allow me to share my potential as a writer to any future instructors who may need it as reassurance of my skills. This as well makes it easy to share it to instructors and to anyone really.

• Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.

I have not met this learning outcome as I didn’t take advantage of the tools at my disposable. The reason for this is that I didn’t use any research sources through the school’s library’s databases or archives I only used the ones I found in my own vicinity at my own initiative. The only time I was able to use the library’s databases was during the library lecture for both fiqws 10108 and 10008. I also didn’t use outside sources because I didn’t feel the need to use them when it came to writing my essay papers. 

• Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.

To demonstrate Learning Outcome #7, which is to compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation, I will include a screenshot of a paragraph in my Comparative Analysis Paper where I analyzed Signs Preceding The End Of The World, Citizen, and Excess – The Factory. In my analysis I deducted a common theme included in each text and yet each text held a significant problem that held its own persuasive stance in how to commence change beginning with awareness of it.

• Practice systematic application of citation conventions.

I don’t think I was able to accomplish this learning outcome. I of course included quotations and in-text citations in my writing but I didn’t structure the essay in accordance to the MLA format. So I have not completely accomplished what was required and perhaps didn’t receive a grade in my essays where it hit every criteria. Regardless, I understand MLA format and would be able to apply it as required.